"My head hurts..."
Duan Chen sat up from the bed, rubbing his temples, recalling what he had done yesterday with a sense of exasperation.
Suddenly, a head appeared at the door.
It was Wang Zihao.
Seeing Duan Chen sit up, his expression turned overjoyed.
He rushed forward enthusiastically.
"Instructor, you're finally awake."
Duan Chen rubbed his temples, nodded, put on his shoes, and stood up.
A cold smile curved his lips.
"Don't let it happen again."
Yesterday was a celebration banquet. They had resolved the Yinshan Village incident, which also served as a celebration for these brats successfully completing their first mission. Despite some minor hiccups, it had ended safely.
As long as they returned safely, it was considered a success.
Although the Su City Guild was still undergoing reconstruction, a banquet was affordable.
They had partied almost the entire night.
And throughout that entire night, Duan Chen, who had always been the blind spot of their animosity, was tormented by Wang Zihao and Long Yi, forced to drink copious amounts of alcohol.
He had naturally tried to resist.
However, Lu Shuishui had tampered with the drinks. By some unknown method, high-proof liquor had been made to feel like low-proof.
This had caused Duan Chen to pass out from drunkenness.
Wang Zihao, knowing he had caused trouble, chuckled sheepishly and scratched the back of his head.
Duan Chen, unable to bear looking, reached out and pushed his face away.
"Stop making such foolish faces. You're starting to remind me more and more of Long Yi."
Speak of the devil.
Long Yi, with a slice of bread in his mouth and a sausage in his hand, walked in with a displeased expression, looking at Duan Chen with great annoyance.
"Mmmph mmmph mmmph mmmph mmmph."
Duan Chen was speechless.
"What gibberish are you spouting? Swallowing your food before you speak."
Long Yi reluctantly swallowed the mouthful of hamburger and shoved the piece of bread into his mouth.
He looked at Duan Chen with strong accusation. "Instructor, you're discriminating against me."
Why was he the representative of being slow-witted?
Duan Chen scoffed, "You can actually understand me."
"It seems you won't be able to be the representative anymore."
Long Yi's face darkened. "I'm not an idiot!"
Duan Chen pushed away Wang Zihao, who was standing beside him, and also Long Yi, who was lying by the doorway. "Get up and stop blocking the way. Are you tired of living?"
Long Yi and Wang Zihao both followed behind Duan Chen.
He asked with some curiosity, "Instructor, do you have mortgage pressure or something? Why are you so eager to take on missions?"
Duan Chen rolled his eyes.
"Don't you guys know?"
"What?" Wang Zihao and Long Yi were both stunned.
Were there things they didn't know?
Duan Chen began to explain, "Speaking of which, it seems you really shouldn't know."
He stroked his chin, feeling no guilt for not informing his trainees about this as their instructor.
It wasn't too late to say it now anyway.
"You are currently still low-level agents in Su City."
"The rights enjoyed by low-level agents and high-level agents are completely different. The rights enjoyed by high-level agents and special-grade agents are even more vastly different. By the end of the year, the agent assessment will begin."
"The agent assessment is about mission completion."
"I don't think you guys would be unaware of such an important matter, right? Perhaps coming from Jiang City, you didn't have much need for Su City agent rankings..."
Duan Chen mused, but before he could finish, two figures suddenly flashed beside him, darting away like a gust of wind.
Wang Zihao and Long Yi vanished instantly.
The air was filled with their groans and curses.
"Instructor, you're so unfair! Why didn't you tell us such important things earlier?"
Although they came from the selection competition in Jingcheng, now that they were assigned to Su City, the selection competition was irrelevant.
Furthermore, the selection competition and the Hunter Spirit Guild in Jingcheng were entirely different entities.
They couldn't be compared at all.
If they truly believed their ranking in the Jingcheng selection competition represented their local standing, they would be complete fools.
Duan Chen chuckled with a hint of malice.
What could they do even if he had deliberately not told them? They had dared to get him drunk.
It was best to make them more anxious. There was still plenty of time before the agent assessment, so him telling them later wouldn't make much difference, it would only affect their mindset.
But so what?
Duan Chen adopted a lazy, laid-back attitude.
He was absolutely certain that if these guys only had their current skill level, they wouldn't even pass the assessment for intermediate agents.
Another crucial point was that low-level agents couldn't actively accept missions. This meant that low-level agents could only receive missions assigned by the guild.
So their anxiety was in vain.
Duan Chen leisurely went to the dining hall for breakfast, and then, at a relaxed pace, walked to the mission hall.
He bumped into two individuals with crestfallen faces.
In good spirits, he raised his hand and greeted them, "Yo, two prodigies from the selection competition, why are you still standing here? Aren't you taking missions and going out to complete them?"
Wang Zihao's entire face sagged.
He said, "Instructor, you really are my instructor. I swear I will never gang up with them to get you drunk again. Actually, that idea was Long Yi's. It has nothing to do with me."
"You!"
Long Yi's eyes widened in disbelief. "You traitor!"
Wang Zihao was quick to shift the blame. "So, my dearest, most handsome, and best instructor, could you take me along on your next mission?"
He had just learned from Xiao Li, who had passed by, that for low-level agents to become high-level agents, they had to rely on the number of completed missions.
There were two ways to increase mission completion numbers.
One was to wait for the guild to assign harmless minor missions, and the other was to piggyback on senior agents' missions.
Wang Zihao's pride prevented him from choosing the first option.
So, he directly pleaded with Duan Chen.
And he made a promise.
"Instructor, don't worry, I will be extremely obedient. If you say east, I'll go east. If you say west, I'll go west. If you say one, I'll never say two."
Wang Zihao walked over with a smile, even taking the opportunity to disparage Long Yi. "And I definitely won't be like someone who attacked you on the first day we met."